Former Rep. Mike Rogers won the Republican primary for Senate in Michigan on Tuesday and will battle it out in the November election for the state’s open Senate seat. Rogers served in the House from 2001-2015. During his tenure in Congress, he was chairman of the Intelligence Committee. He faced off against another former Rep....
Incumbent Rep. Elissa Slotkin won the Democratic primary election for Senate in Michigan on Tuesday, setting up a short general election campaign before November. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., defeated actor Hill Harper in the state’s Democratic primary to fill outgoing Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s seat. Slotkin currently represents Michigan in the House of Representatives. She...
Vice President Kamala Harris is now formally the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential nominee. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced the news on Monday, following the conclusion of a five-day virtual roll call of pledged delegates to the party’s national convention, which kicks off in two weeks in Chicago. The securing of the nomination comes hours...
Hillary Scholten won the House Democratic primary in Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District – one of the most critical races on the map when it comes to deciding control of Congress. Scholten defeated Salim Al-Shatel with 87% of the vote according to a call by the Associated Press. Scholten, who is finishing her freshman term in...
House Speaker Mike Johnson, who said Tuesday that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro would have been a “stronger choice” for Vice President Harris’ vice presidential pick, said he thinks she was “reluctant” to pick the 51-year-old as her running mate because of his “Jewish heritage.” “I think that clearly was a major factor, is that she...
Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate two weeks out from the Democratic National Convention comes as a bit of a “shock,” and GOP strategists suggest it could hurt her in key battleground states like Pennsylvania, where Gov. Josh Shapiro was purported to have been the favored choice....
Despite not being chosen as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro affirmed his unwavering support for her and the 2024 Democratic ticket, announcing his commitment to campaign vigorously in a Tuesday morning social media post. Harris named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday – a last-minute decision...
Voters in Missouri’s bright blue 1st Congressional District served a sharp rebuke of the left’s progressive wing on Tuesday, denying Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., a third term. The “Squad” Democrat lost her primary to St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, a more moderate candidate who had the backing of pro-Israel groups that spent millions to...
PHILADELPHIA — Democrat Gov. Tim Walz is not a household name outside his home state of Minnesota. So, in the hours after Vice President Harris named the former longtime congressman and two-term governor as her running mate on the Democratic Party’s 2024 ticket, the Harris campaign instantly began working to showcase Walz. His biography was...
Democratic state attorney general Bob Ferguson took the most number of votes in Washington state’s nonpartisan gubernatorial primary Tuesday. He will face Republican Dave Reichert, who placed second, in the Nov. 5 election to replace termed-out Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee. In Washington’s “top two” primary system, all candidates for congressional and state offices are listed...
